We don’t have to convert all of them. Some we convince, others stay home and don’t vote. Pretty much before you can whistle Dixie we’ve already covered the 70,000 and counting.
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I said a month ago that I thought this was leading to the path of resignation. I think that end result is a bit closer today. I would put the chances of resignation at 40%. Trump has no real allies. GOP has always kept a safe distance from Trump, and Burr’s knowledge of what’s out there against Trump is making them take a few steps further back. The GOP is keeping him around to pass a big tax cut and health care repeal, both of which they could do with Pence. So, why not dump him?
It belies a weakness in the GOP position. First, I think the GOP still believes they need Trump’s salesmanship to keep their majority intact. Second, Mitch also seems to believe that he only has this window in June to ram health care through because he doesn’t believe the votes will be there in his caucus when they are in midterm mindset.
So the challenge for Dems is to find some parliamentary moves to delay this vote into July. If it goes into July, then it probably doesn’t happen. Another possible inflection point might be the GA-6 race. If Ossoff wins, I could see a scenario where blue state GOPers back away from HC altogether. In a normal environment that would definitely happen. But we have a racially charged, big money influenced environment over a group of very stupid people, so even an Ossoff win is no guarantee of anything. Based on past experience, GOP tends to triple down even after a loss. That said, a loss in GA-06 would make Trump seem more radioactive and put the GOP majority at real risk. A win in GA-06 for Handel probably strengthens their resolve but doesn’t really change the trajectory of 2018.
It seems pretty clear to me that if Trump is on the minds of voters in 2018/20 as the head of the GOP, then it spells almost certain doom for the electoral prospects. And as we saw in the UK yesterday, there are limits to what governments can do when there is a lack of popular support. The smart move for the GOP now is to get Trump out of the way this summer.
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how long was that?
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MANGOTUS?
I love it!
I should keep a list.
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I Marvel at that.
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We are still waiting for official portraits of POTUS and the VP at our agency. At least they’re waiting to get it right since the previous President had to sit for his portrait twice.
Here’s a sneak peek … enjoy!
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When he should be using the term “fake news”,naturally he will give a shout out to the propaganda arm of GOP…BRAVO.
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Let’s NOT kid ourselves after he’s found guilty, he’ll refuse to leave the white house…
WHAT THEN???
Here’s the plan.>>>>>>>>>>>>
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He is not the only progressive voter I know who went down this dark path.
Dark path? To you perhaps but to that ‘fellow Democrat’ it might have been the yellow brick road back to the Roosevelt/Johnson democratic values vs. today’s Eisenhower Democrats’ Party views.
One commonality – they all started on Bernie groups on Facebook.
Don’t and never have had a Facebook account. Let it go, the election is over.
Easy to counter. Trump leaked first when he publicized that Comey assured he wasn’t under investigation 3 times in his dismissal letter. I guess that fact is lost on them.
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That’s the crux of the problem we face - they have been taught to hate and fear us - their fellow Americans.
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And they eagerly took that lesson to heart.
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The only ones who are vindicated are the ones who think tЯЦmp is a tЯaitor.
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And I don’t know what can be done about it. At least they are a minority but as long as Rush and Fox and the GOP are fueling that belief, I don’t know that we can do a thing about it. But that’s how we got here - Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, et al.
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Oh I don’t think he’ll be successful at it. I just knew he’d be petty enough to try.
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Don’t be stupid.
You can’t tell people ‘your anger is misplaced’ and then expect them to do what you want them to do. People were angry. What were they angry about? Do you really think the ultra-leftists were pissed about a black man in the White House? Polling consistently showed that the 2016 general election was a race between two of the least popular candidates in recent history. And Sec. Clinton still won the popular vote by three million votes.
People looking for answers want someone they feel gets it. Clearly, not enough people in critical states felt that way about Sec. Clinton. Part of that was Russian misinformation. Part of it was Republican misinformation. Part of it was the general atrophy of the Democratic Party’s machinery during the last 8 years—as good a President as Obama was, he wasn’t very good at selling the Party on a larger scale. And the people who were in charge of the Party during his administration weren’t too great at it, either. Do you know anyone who was thrilled with DWS?
Yes, the Sanders supporters who refused to support Sec. Clinton were idiots. That doesn’t mean they get all the blame. Neither the candidate, nor her campaign, nor her surrogates did a good job of selling her to those people.
How many times did the issue of healthcare come up? When it did, we heard the Republicans saying ‘repeal and replace’, and the Democrats saying ‘we need to fix the problems’. How many times did the Dems, during campaign speeches, debates, public statements, etc, actually hammer home the fact that those problems were intentionally caused by the Republicans? I didn’t hear it. Not once. I didn’t hear ‘we need to fix the problems with Obamacare that Congressional Republicans have caused through intentional sabotage of the American healthcare system’.
Did you?
I heard a lot of attacking Trump on Trump’s general statements and his character, but I didn’t hear a damned thing attacking his claims. Secretary Clinton was the single most qualified candidate in American history, but she still didn’t close the deal. She didn’t connect to a lot of people, and purity tests and sexism don’t account for all of them. I’m not even sure they account for most of them. And blaming the consumer for not buying your product… that’s not the way to grow the brand. Ever.
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How has he not been disbarred yet?
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A loser and coward. Mr. Preshitident: Why don’t you volunteer under oath as Comey did?
The reminder of Who Framed Roger Rabbit brings to mind Jessica Rabbit’s lament, “I’m not bad, it’s just the way they drew me”. That line is so apropos of the character assassination campaign directed against Hillary Clinton for thirty years and by both the left and right in the campaign.
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Six former Attorney Generals state Trump should be charged with obstruction of justice, and the bimbo claims vindication. Nevertheless, she persisted!
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